Untitled Poem

A sonnet’s lines must use pentameter
    (which means they have five beats per line, you know)
But that’s just one constrained parameter
    That every proper sonnet has to show.
Iambic meter is another rule
    (it means one pause between each solid beat),
Yet trochees are OK, though not as cool
    Because they leave the endings not as neat.
A couplet after interlaced quatrains:
    This is the form that Shakespeare liked the best;
But fourteen lines with rhymes, that is the mains-
    -tay of the sonnet form, more than the rest.

A sonnet has no topical constraints;
So let’s not have those speaks of love complaints!